An inspiring memoir by the late Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, AIDS victim, man of courage and grace. Ashe tells about the athlete's life; tennis court contemporaries such as Connors, McEnroe, and Navratilova; his passionate devotion to his wife and daughter; the places he has been; people he has known; and more. Photos.

The bestselling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, explores how the town's passion for the team inspires--and sometimes shatters--the young men who wear the Panther uniform.

On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers--some experienced, others less prepared--ascended K2, the world's second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers--many without oxygen and some with no headlamps--faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history.

Building on the tradition of "Little Bee," Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. On the road to Olympic Gold in London, world-class athletes Zoe and Kate must decide what's most important to them.

Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter
By Deford, Frank
2012-05 - Atlantic Monthly Press
9780802120151 Check Our Catalog

An unconventional tale as wide-ranging as Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium, from the 1960s until today.

Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen
By Drape, Joe
2010-08 - St. Martin's Griffin
9780312662639 Check Our Catalog

Drape, a Kansas City native and an award-winning sportswriter for "The New York Times," pens an inspiring portrait of the extraordinary high school football team and coach whose quest for perfection sustains its hometown in Smith Center, Kansas.

The careers of a golden-boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths, but it's what happens off the field that makes "Calico Joe" a classic by America's favorite storyteller.

An expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others in a baseball story that goes beyond the sport and into hearts and minds.

One of the greatest legends of the 20th century, Seabiscuit was a discarded, bottom-level runner who became a champion with the help of three men: a trainer, an owner, and a jockey. This is the spellbinding tale of how they did it.

Shooting Stars
By James, Lebron
Author Bissinger, Buzz
2009-09 - Penguin Press
9781594202322 Check Our Catalog

Basketball superstar James and Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Friday Night Lights," tell this poignant, thrilling account of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including James's own.

Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem and the Birth of the Indy 500
By Leerhsen, Charles
2011-05 - Simon & Schuster
9781439149041 Check Our Catalog

Timed for the 100th anniversary of auto racing's premier event, this is the wild story of the first Indy 500 and the dawn of the automotive age.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
By Lewis, Michael
2004-03 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393324815 Check Our Catalog

Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manager, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, "Slate") but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" ("Weekly Standard").

Acclaimed sports journalist McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled hoop dreams, and remade the NBA into a global sensation.

"The Omnivore's Dilemma" meets "The Pioneer Woman Cooks": a provocative book that pushes the boundaries of the foodie revolution and considers why, how, and what we eat.

On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali -- and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated -- with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lenin's Tomb" (and editor of The New Yorker). In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.

On par with the classic golf narratives of Mark Frost and John Feinstein, this will surprise and delight fans as they trace the improbable journey of an unheralded former caddie who played his way into the record books by out-dueling the sport's greatest champion of his time.

A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
By Wellington, Chrissie
2012-05 - Center Street
9781455505579 Check Our Catalog

As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's 2007 win at the Ironman World Championships shook up the sport. Her first-hand, inspiring story includes all the incredible challenges she has faced and reveals the heart behind Wellington's success.